I started off on the wrong foot this morning:
First off, got to bed about 10pm, finally fell asleep, and Fox fell out of his bed. (he sleeps in the bottom-bunk and it has a wall-thing on the side so he doesn’t “roll out” and he wanted us to take it off yesterday.) ANYHOW, he fell onto the floor and SCREAMED until I ran in his room and put him back in.
FINALLY got to sleep again and then Scott woke me up coughing around 11:30. DIDN’T get to sleep again and then Fox fell out of the bed AGAIN at about 2am!! Anyhow, to make a long story short, I slept from 10-11pm and then finally fell asleep again around 4am only to wake up at 5am.
BELIEVE me, I did NOT want to wake up. I hauled my butt out of bed and hiked in the dark until I reached the top of the mtn. above my house. Took me 42 minutes. Then, I ran down. It was really beautiful out this morning, so that ALMOST made up for the fact that I was really missing my sleep!
Dragged around feeling super tired and SUPER hungry all day (see, I KNEW IT!)
So, I got home, made myself breakfast, got the kids up, etc… and my friend Laura calls me and we’re talking about our workouts (we do this every morning) and Scott is in the office overhearing our conversation:
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So, here’s how it goes down:
Basically, I’ve been working super hard for the last three weeks and great w/ my eating/workouts/water, etc…and then this morning, I’m complaining to Laura on the phone that I haven’t lost weight yet.
She was telling me her hubby Brooks, has already lost 5 lbs. (He started eating clean a week ago and is on week two of P90X). Well, then my DH (a.k.a. the “peanut gallery”) decides to chime in with his TWO CENTS.
Scott: “HONEY, you haven’t lost ANY WEIGHT YET????” (as if he was PERSONALLY OFFENDED by this).
Me: “NO, honey, I HAVEN’T, but my body always does this and I’ll start to drop this week.”
Scott: “are you sure you’re pushing yourself hard enough? Maybe you need to kick up the intensity of your workouts or something?? You should have lost weight by now!”
Me: NO HONEY. Just because when you SKIP A MEAL, you lose TEN POUNDS doesn’t mean that it happens to me. You married someone with FAT GENES. My body likes to hold onto the weight like no other.
Scott: “yada yada yada…blah blah blah….” (I can’t repeat this part of the conversation back to you b/c all I was thinking while he was talking was that I wanted to SCRATCH HIS EYES OUT.
GUYS really have NO CLUE the kind of discipline it takes for us to get where we want to be. I love to complain about this with you cause we have very similar body-types and we are MARRIED to men with very similar body-types.
OK, enough ranting. Normally, Scott is a very rational person and doesn’t get involved in my crazy diet/exercise schedules and plots and plans. He really has idea how hard a woman has to work to get to a certain size/bodyfat. It’s SO ANNOYING!!!!
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I went grocery shopping w/o eating first today and HONESTLY thought seriously about hitting taco maker for a bean and cheese burrito on the way home. I was having MAJOR INTENSE carb-cravings. I was SOOOOO freakin’ hungry all day and I don’t know WHAT I was thinking leaving for the grocery store without food in my tummy. SO DUMB. When I got home, I wanted to eat LOTS of anything bad so I knew I had to make myself something super-yummy to kill the carb monster that had welled up inside my brain. So, here’s what I came up with:
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My new Favorite Salad:
1 grilled salmon burger, chopped up and heated
1 head chopped romaine lettuce
1/4 cup (cooked) jasmine rice (I know, BAD, but I was STARVING!)
2 T. medium salsa
1/2 lime (juiced)
Small handful of cilantro chopped finely
garlic salt to taste
Ground pepper to taste
Threw this all in a tupperware and shook it. and OH MY GOSH, I was in heaven. I felt guilt over the white rice, but hey, it was only 1/4 cup.
Think I’ll have it again tomorrow!
Came in at 1200 cals today, think it was b/c I coached Riv’s soccer game and was gone from 5:00-7:00. Good thing, too. If I would have been home, I think I would have attacked the kids’ granola bars:(
ANYHOW, here’s my eating today:
1 Wasa Cracker
1/2 c. oatmeal with water
1 turkey burger-grilled
South Beach Bar (Dang me!)
1.5 cups black bean soup
A bite of PB&J (BAD, I know!) Made me want more, but I didn’t cave!
1 slice of smoked turkey, 3 almonds
1 wedge skinny cow light swiss cheese
Salmon Salad
Postum
Bought a TON of veggies at Costco today. I’m going to have to stuff my face with green stuff so it doesn’t all go bad!
How was your day? Did you do Kenpo, or something else?
Did I mention how much I LOVE that we are being accountable to each other?
Here’s to veggies tomorrow!
Steph:)
p.s. I’m considering today a MAJOR victory for me. Got no sleep and I still got up and got my workout done and then I was so hungry and tired and cranky and ANNOYED and still stayed on my eating plan with no major mess-ups. Now, I only need about 80 more days just like today and I’ll be at my goal weight. GIVE ME STRENGTH!
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